High Water Women Members give much of their time in volunteering with our partners, but there is still such a big need by non-for-profits for Board Members with the skill set that High Water Women members have. Contributions at the board level can make a huge difference to the many clients that an organization serves, another way of adding leverage to one’s support. Please consider the following Board needs, and if you are interested send your resume or bio to the contact person listed with the organization.
For more information on these organizations and our postings, please contact Kathleen Kelley.
The Center Against Domestic Violence
The Center Against Domestic Violence, located in Brooklyn has over a $10 million budget and is dedicated to preventing violence within the family and to promoting the well-being and economic independence of women and children, by providing safe shelters, a network of supportive services, advocacy, education and resource information services and building coalitions for change. Board members are sought and are expected to make a minimum personal contribution of $5,000 and are expected to get an additional $5,000 to total $10,000 Give & Get. The amount a board member gives or gets toward special events is included in this total number. The board meets in the evening 6 times a year at the different locations – usually a board member’s midtown office. One of the meetings is a 6-hour Saturday retreat. Typically, meetings take about two hours. Additionally, Board members are asked to join two committees. Committees meet between two and six times a year.
Please see http://www.centeragainstdv.org/ for more information or contact Rona Solomon at rsolomom@centeragainsttv.org or +1 (718) 254-9134.
Childbirth Connection
Childbirth Connection, formerly Maternity Center Association, is a national not-for-profit organization founded in 1918 in New York City. Our mission is to improve the quality of maternity care through, research, education, advocacy and policy, and serve as a voice for the needs and interests of childbearing women and their families. Our award-winning website, provides high quality, trustworthy scientific information to women, health professionals, policymakers and the media. Our Listening to Mothers Initiative is devoted to understanding experiences and perspectives of childbearing women and using this knowledge to improve maternity policy, practice, education and research. Our operating budget is $1 million. Our Nominating Committee’s goal is to identify potential new board members from across the country with finance and other corporate experience to serve on our board. Board members are expected to attend (by phone and in person) 4 meetings per year and serve on one board committee, contribute a minimum of $2,000 per year to the annual appeal, connect us to other potential donors, and actively participate in the governance of the organization, shape policy and strategy.
Please see http://www.childbirthconnection.org for more information or contact Maureen Corry, Executive Director at corry@childbirthconnection.org or +1 (917) 439-7201.
Children of Bellevue
Children of Bellevue is located at Bellevue Hospital Center (First Avenue and 27th Street) and is a 59 year old organization whose mission is to initiate, fund and develop special programs and to act as an advocate for children and their families within Bellevue Hospital Center. Our programs ease the pain and loneliness of hospitalized children; advance language development among children at risk of delay; help abused or neglected youngsters cope, recover and heal; and nurture children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders. We have an operating budget of $1.4 million. My primary goal is to identify potential new board members for our organization, with corporate experience. Our top needs are to recruit individuals who are willing and able to participate in the governance of our organization, promote us to an outside audience and bring fresh perspectives to our programs. Our Board requirements are: attendance (by phone or in person) at 6 meetings per year, give/get of $5,000, service on 2 board committees and participation in our Toast to the Children gala.
Please see http://www.childrenofbellevue.org/g for more information or contact Barbara Paxton at barbara.paxton@bellevue.nychhc.org or +1 (212) 562-4130.
Goddard Riverside Community Center
Goddard Riverside Community Center is a multi-service, neighborhood-based organization that serves the poor on the Upper West Side and in Harlem. Our headquarters are at 593 Columbus Avenue at 88th Street. We provide food, housing and educational opportunities to New Yorkers in need. At Goddard Riverside: children’s lives are enriched by arts, science and sports all year; teens receive one-to-one college counseling and, with this help, are the first in their families to attend; homeless men and women move off the streets and into secure housing; and isolated elders benefit from nutritious meals and social activities. In all, 22 programs support 16,500 of our neighbors. Our operating budget is $19.8 million; 86 cents of each dollar is spent on programs. We have a large board that can be described as congenial, non-divisive and extremely committed to the mission of the organization. There is a concentration of board members who live on the Upper West Side as well as many who work in the publishing industry. We are seeking new members, especially from the financial and information technology sectors. There are expectations, but no stated requirements, that board members attend board meetings (5 per year), attend events, actively participate on committees, make personal contributions and bring in other donors.
Please visit http://www.goddard.org/ for more information or contact Lily Morgan Owen at lowen@goddard.org or +1 (212) 873-6600, ext. 315.
Good Shepherd Services
Good Shepherd Services, is a leading youth development, education and family service agency with a budget of $60 million and which serves 18,000 annually through multiple programs and sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, all united by our common goal of helping vulnerable children, youth and families make a safe passage to self-sufficiency. Focusing on high-need neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, we provide a broad array of individual, family and school-based services to prevent youth from becoming disconnected from family, school and society. We also help those who come to us already disengaged find hope and motivation to reconnect with their community. When young people cannot stay in their families, we continue to provide a safety net of superior quality foster care and residential programs, as we have since our earliest days. We are seeking one or two motivated individuals to enhance our Board, who share our conviction that all young people can take ownership of a better future if given the supports, tools and opportunities they need to succeed. Our expectations are that Board members will guide organizational planning and development; oversee financial management; ensure agency accountability to the public; and leverage resources to support and enrich our work. Our give/get expectation for Board participation is $25,000 annually. Board meetings are held quarterly, traditionally on Tuesday evenings from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Members are also expected to participate in one of our ten standing committees. Program Committee, Development/PR Committee, Finance Committee, Audit Committee, QI/Risk Management Committee, Human Resources Committee, Facilities Committee, Technology Committee, Governance Committee as well as the Executive Committee. These committees typically meet three to four times a year.
Please visit http://www.goodshepherds.org/ for more information or contact Sr. Paulette LoMonaco, Executive Director, Good Shepherd Services at PLoMonaco@goodshepherds.org.
Inwood House
Inwood House was established in 1830, and is a nationally recognized leader and innovator in youth development, teen pregnancy prevention, and family support programs and serves nearly 5,500 young people in New York City and New Jersey each year. Inwood House operates model programs designed to interrupt intergenerational cycles of teen pregnancy and persistent poverty, child abuse and neglect. The Inwood House programs strengthen a young person’s self-esteem and invest in the core building blocks that young adults and parents-to-be need to be nurturing parents, productive employees and responsible citizens. The Inwood House operating budget is $9+ million. We are seeking Board members who are committed to the organization’s mission, vision and goals; participate actively in four (4) Board meetings per year, one (1) annual strategic meeting, and serve on two (2) committees; provide oversight of financial and legal issues; personally contribute financial resources to Inwood House at a level that is meaningful to the respective Board member; and advocate with friends and members of the community on behalf of Inwood House. The Inwood House Board is committed to raising $3 million for the Capital Campaign to renovate the Inwood House Family Learning Center on 320 East 82nd Street in Manhattan.
Please visit http://www.inwoodhouse.com/ for more information or contact Kathleen Cooney Clarke at kclarke@inwoodhouse.com or at +1 (212) 861-4325, ext. 223.
Iris House
Iris House, A Center for Women Living with HIV/AIDS, Inc. marks its 15th Anniversary of Women Helping Women. The organization’s mission is to provide services for women, children and families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. The agency’s programs aim to help persons living with HIV live a productive and healthy life. The agency also focuses on children affected by HIV to ensure they have opportunities to learn and prevent inter-generational HIV infection. Iris House is in the process of completing its 5 year strategic plan which will drive its planning for program expansion, demographic expansion and geographic expansion. In order to implement this plan the agency is looking for board members to join who are willing and able to participate in the governance of the organization, fundraising on behalf of the agency and introducing the agency to new foundations and individual donors. This will help the agency continue to maintain its current $4.9M budget and implement the expanded budget required within the strategic plan. The board requirements include: attendance (by phone or in person) at 6 meetings per year, making a stretch donation to the agency, and participation in fundraising activities.
Please visit http://www.irishouse.org/ for more information or contact Ingrid Floyd, Executive Director at ifloyd@irishouse.org or +1 (646) 548-0100, ext 238.
NPower
NPower is headquartered in Manhattan and has an additional site (a Training and Data Center) at Metro Tech Center in Brooklyn. We are a nine year-old nonprofit organization that leverages the power of information technology to help build better, stronger and more sustainable communities. In addition to New York City there are eleven other NPower affiliates in cities and regions including Atlanta, Charlotte, Indiana, Oregon, Philadelphia, Seattle and Texas. New York is the largest affiliate, and as a result of its success, assumed the role as network leader and national office in 2007. NPower achieves its mission in two primary ways. First, we provide direct technology assistance to other nonprofit organizations (more than 14,000 to date), keyed to helping them deploy IT to improve productivity, achieve substantial cost savings and create new strategies, services and impacts in their local communities. Second, at our flagship affiliate in New York City, NPower operates an innovative workforce development program that will train and place up to 120 low-income, urban youth this year in IT jobs this year. Our current operating budget is $8.2 million, exclusive of the independent budgets of our affiliates. We are seeking new board leaders who can help us succeed in our Network leadership role and build NPower into one of the country's most innovative and respected nonprofit sector leaders. Duties include attendance at four board meetings annually, service on one or more standing and ad hoc committees, and playing an active role in raising funds for the organization.
Please visit http://www.npower.org/ for more information or contact Barbara Chang at Barbara.Chang@NPower.org or +1 (212) 564-7010, ext. 208.
Project Enterprise
Project Enterprise’s mission is to support and develop entrepreneurs and small businesses in under-resourced communities in New York City. By providing access to business loans, business development services and networking opportunities, these entrepreneurs are able to increase their standard of living, create jobs for themselves and for their communities, and build financial assets. Project Enterprise is based on the Grameen Bank’s Nobel Prize winning lending model and has been operating in New York for over ten years. We have an operating budget of $900K and have an aggressive five year growth plan to increase the number of New Yorkers serves and loans made to low income New Yorkers. Project Enterprise seeks Board Members who have demonstrated a commitment to the organization and its mission. Specifically PE is seeking individuals who have prior nonprofit or corporate board experience and can provide significant strategic and financial resources. Our board requirements are as follows: attend four board meetings per year and participate in one board committee, have Project Enterprise as priority philanthropy, make personally significant gift to organization, and participate in PE program related events including annual Entrepreneur of the Year dinner.
Please visit http://www.projectenterprise.org/ or contact Arva Rice at ArvaR@projectenterprise.org or +1 (212) 678-6734, ext. 16.
Queens Library Foundation
Queens Library Foundation is the fundraising arm of Queens Library. Queens Library is the nation's highest circulating public library system (fourth in the world) and is separate from the Brooklyn and New York Public Library systems, serving the most ethnically diverse population in the nation (from more than 190 countries, speaking more than 150 languages). Customers borrow more than 21 million items and make 13 million visits to our 63 community libraries annually. The Foundation raises $2-4 million annually from private foundations, corporations, and individuals to support free Library programs like after-school homework help, meaningful jobs for teens, family literacy programs, mail-a-books for homebound seniors and sessions to help new Americans succeed. We seek individuals who care deeply about the value and role of free information in a democratic society and wish to play a leadership role by spreading the word about our organization, participating in Board governance and activities, helping us make contacts to new supporters, and bringing their insights to Library programs and services. Requirements are 4 meetings per year at the Central Library in Jamaica (teleconference accepted), give/get of $10,000 including participation in our annual GALA in support of children's services.
Please visit http://www.queenslibraryfoundation.org/ for more information or contact Diana Chapin at Diana.Chapin@queenslibrary.org or +1 (718) 480-4273.
STRIVE
STRIVE, which stands for Support and Training Result in Valuable Employees, was founded in 1984, and located in East Harlem. STRIVE is a recognized leader in securing jobs for the chronically unemployed, supporting them in taking the critical first step towards achieving self-reliance. Our job-readiness training program combines attitudinal training with fundamental job skills, and long-term participant follow-up. Graduate job-retention rates surpass those achieved by governmental workforce programs and other agencies. STRIVE has since grown into a network comprised of 20 domestic and international affiliates — with affiliated agencies in the United Kingdom and Israel. Our operating budget is $3.2M. We have recently expanded our 15 maximum board to 25, with a goal to support our plans for growth. The board’s scope is both the New York STRIVE operations as well as oversight (non-fiscal) of our International Affiliate Network. The Board approves strategy for affiliate replication and any expansion of services or populations served, in addition to its fiscal and programmatic oversight of the New York affiliate. We anticipate that 2009 and 2010 years will be growth years for STRIVE and are seeking expertise on our board to help us improve our “franchising” model as well as funding sources and public relations. We are seeking new Board members with the following skills and/or backgrounds: public relations, marketing, information technology, law, accounting, finance, human resources, franchising, entertainment, and fundraising capabilities. Our Board requirements are: Quarterly board meetings are held in New York (telephone attendance for two meetings acceptable), with the September board meeting typically being an all-day retreat, $25,000 give or get donation, and assistance with raising funds through networking and periodic events.
Please visit http://www.striveinternational.org for more information or contact Katherine Strickle at kstrickle@striveinternational.org or +1 (212) 360-1100.